The National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Drug Abuse is offering two free, interactive, online CME activities about responsible opioid prescribing practices, and best practices for assessing, preventing, and addressing prescription opioid abuse. In these CMEs, NIDA encourages clinicians to use its NIDAMED resources which are specially designed for use in clinical practice to assess patients’ drug use and possible referral to drug treatment. Click here to learn more about the CMEs.

Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) along with the Brain Injury Association of North Carolina are partnering to present a Concussion (student athlete) Conference on March 1 called “Teamwork: Management of Concussion in the Youth/Recreational Athlete.”  For more information and to register, click here.

MAHEC is also offering “Practical Applications in Integrative Health: Innovations Across the Spectrum of Care” on March 27-29, at the Renaissance Asheville Hotel, Asheville. Click here for more information.

Be sure to review the ICD-10 training opportunities listed in this Bulletin in the article on ICD-10.